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sacred stories: niche interests
The sacred and the profane. the eternal tango. …“Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.”― Primo Levi….Max Frisch once wrote that “technology … Continue reading
beyond here lies nothin’
Get a piece of the Rock? Flash mob anybody? Block party. Get to know the neighbors. In a hurry. A good pretext for a riot. It is the most contentious piece of real-estate in The Holy Land. The Temple Mount … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged 1929 Shaw Commission, 1967 Oral Law Conference, Alec Garrard, Bill Mosienko, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan Beyond Here Lies Nothin', Chaim Richman, Chief Rabbi Avraham Shapiro, Chief Rabbi Kook, Chief Rabbi Yosef, Elaine May, Elaine May and Mike Nichols, Ezra Hedaya judge, Gerry Cheevers, Giulio Meotti, Maynard G. Krebs, Mike Nichols, more, Paul Kossoff, Primo Levi, Rabbi Chaim Richman, Rabbi Getz, Rabbi Levi Yitzhak, Rabbi Lior Kiryat Arba, Shlomo Goren, Ted Lindsay Detroit Red Wings, Temple Institute Jerusalem, The Lifta Band, Yehuda Glick Temple Institute
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short lease: after this commercial break
The industry of memory. A industry setting boundaries on how we remember and the nature of interpretation. Ultimately, you can’t really portray real life tragedy. Even the original experiences of the holocaust victims, those closest to near death experiences are … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged albert hackett, Ann Frank, Anne Frank, Anne Frank Museum, Bruno Schulz, Elie Wiesel, frances goodrich, Gene Wilder, holocaust industry, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Norman Finkelstein, Otto Frank, Primo Levi, sharon dogar
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where shall i seek you
The plausibility of Elie Wiesel asserting the importance of the holocaust as comparable and of equal significance to the events of Mount Sinai does seem like poetic lyricism gone amok and the elevation of the tragic to fetishised narrative of … Continue reading
he who casts the first stone
Its like turning back the pages to communist Russia with Orwellian overtones. Legally, the state is supposed to indemnify victims and their families of terror attacks. However, what is classified as a terror incidents is decided arbitrarily in the way … Continue reading
like a bone in the throat
Coincidence. She is in a room beside Adolf Hitler…. Anne Frank is about our current struggle to engage the past shorn from nostalgia, disavowal and kitsch. Stuck in the throat. A chicken bone stuck in the throat. A wish bone … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anne Frank, Anne Frank Madame Tussaud Berlin, Anne Frank Museum, Diary of Anne Frank, eva schloss, Francine Prose, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, meyer levin, Otto Frank, Pablo Picasso, Philip Roth, Primo Levi
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color and the language of second nature
The power of color. Is color more a presence than a sign, a force, ” the most sacred element of all visible things.” Is color primary and not secondary to form? Is color fundamentally involved in the making of culture … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, Goethe, John Ruskin, John Verelst, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marcel Proust, Paul Kane, Philip Roth, Philip Whalen, Primo Levi, sidney nolan art, Vincent Van Gogh, Walter Benjamin, William Burroughs
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